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Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DecodeShortURLs(3) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DecodeShortURLs(3) |
NAME¶
DecodeShortURLs - Check for shortened URLs
SYNOPSIS¶
loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DecodeShortURLs url_shortener tinyurl.com url_shortener_get bit.ly body HAS_SHORT_URL eval:short_url() describe HAS_SHORT_URL Message has one or more shortened URLs body SHORT_URL_REDIR eval:short_url_redir() describe SHORT_URL_REDIR Message has shortened URL that resulted in a valid redirection body SHORT_URL_CHAINED eval:short_url_chained() describe SHORT_URL_CHAINED Message has shortened URL chained to other shorteners body SHORT_URL_MAXCHAIN eval:short_url_maxchain() describe SHORT_URL_MAXCHAIN Message has shortened URL that causes too many redirections body SHORT_URL_LOOP eval:short_url_loop() describe SHORT_URL_LOOP Message has short URL that loops back to itself body SHORT_URL_200 eval:short_url_code('200') # Can check any non-redirect HTTP code describe SHORT_URL_200 Message has shortened URL returning HTTP 200 body SHORT_URL_404 eval:short_url_code('404') # Can check any non-redirect HTTP code describe SHORT_URL_404 Message has shortened URL returning HTTP 404 uri URI_TINYURL_BLOCKED m,https://tinyurl\.com/app/nospam, describe URI_TINYURL_BLOCKED Message contains a tinyurl that has been disabled due to abuse uri URI_BITLY_BLOCKED m,^https://bitly\.com/a/blocked, describe URI_BITLY_BLOCKED Message contains a bit.ly URL that has been disabled due to abuse
DESCRIPTION¶
This plugin looks for URLs shortened by a list of URL shortening services. Upon finding a matching URL, plugin will send a HTTP request to the shortening service and retrieve the Location-header which points to the actual shortened URL. It then adds this URL to the list of URIs extracted by SpamAssassin which can then be accessed by uri rules and plugins such as URIDNSBL.
This plugin will follow chained redirections, where a short URL redirects to another short URL. Redirection depth limit can be set with "max_short_url_redirections".
Maximum of "max_short_urls" short URLs are checked in a message (10 by default). Setting it to 0 disables HTTP requests, allowing only short_url() test to work and report found shorteners.
All supported rule types for checking short URLs and redirection status are documented in SYNOPSIS section.
NOTES¶
This plugin runs at the check_dnsbl hook (priority -100) so that it may modify the parsed URI list prior to normal uri rules or the URIDNSBL plugin.
USER SETTINGS¶
- url_shortener domain [domain...] (default: none)
- Domains that should be considered as an URL shortener. If the domain
begins with a '.', 3rd level tld of the main domain will be checked.
Example:
url_shortener tinyurl.com url_shortener .page.link
- url_shortener_get domain [domain...] (default: none)
- Alias to "url_shortener". HTTP request
will be done with GET method, instead of default HEAD. Required for some
services like bit.ly to return blocked URL correctly.
Example:
url_shortener_get bit.ly
- clear_url_shortener [domain] [domain...]
- Clear configured url_shortener and url_shortener_get domains, for example to override default settings from an update channel. If domains are specified, then only those are removed from list.
PRIVILEGED SETTINGS¶
- url_shortener_cache_type (default: none)
- The cache type that is being utilized. Currently only supported value is
"dbi" that implies
"url_shortener_cache_dsn" is a DBI
connect string. DBI module is required.
Example: url_shortener_cache_type dbi
- url_shortener_cache_dsn (default: none)
- The DBI dsn of the database to use.
For SQLite, the database will be created automatically if it does not already exist, the supplied path and file must be read/writable by the user running spamassassin or spamd.
For MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL, see sql-directory for database table creation clauses.
You will need to have the proper DBI module for your database. For example DBD::SQLite, DBD::mysql, DBD::MariaDB or DBD::Pg.
Minimum required SQLite version is 3.24.0 (available from DBD::SQLite 1.59_01).
Examples:
url_shortener_cache_dsn dbi:SQLite:dbname=/var/lib/spamassassin/DecodeShortURLs.db
- url_shortener_cache_username (default: none)
- The username that should be used to connect to the database. Not used for SQLite.
- url_shortener_cache_password (default: none)
- The password that should be used to connect to the database. Not used for SQLite.
- url_shortener_cache_ttl (default: 86400)
- The length of time a cache entry will be valid for in seconds. Default is
86400 (1 day).
See "url_shortener_cache_autoclean" for database cleaning.
ADMINISTRATOR SETTINGS¶
- url_shortener_cache_autoclean (default: 1000)
- Automatically purge old entries from database. Value describes a random
run chance of 1/x. The default value of 1000 means that cleaning is run
approximately once for every 1000 messages processed. Value of 1 would
mean database is cleaned every time a message is processed.
Set 0 to disable automatic cleaning and to do it manually.
- url_shortener_loginfo (default: 0 (off))
- If this option is enabled (set to 1), then short URLs and the decoded URLs will be logged with info priority.
- url_shortener_timeout (default: 5)
- Maximum time a short URL HTTP request can take, in seconds.
- max_short_urls (default: 10)
- Maximum amount of short URLs that will be looked up per message. Chained
redirections are not counted, only initial short URLs found.
Setting it to 0 disables HTTP requests, allowing only short_url() test to work and report any found shortener URLs.
- max_short_url_redirections (default: 10)
- Maximum depth of chained redirections that a short URL can generate.
- url_shortener_user_agent (default: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.67 Safari/537.36)
- Set User-Agent header for HTTP requests. Some services require it to look like a common browser.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS¶
Original DecodeShortURLs plugin was developed by Steve Freegard.
2024-04-10 | perl v5.40.0 |